information-gathering conformism
What you didn’t know
• Francisco Gil-White
• Psychology
• University of Pennsylvania
Social learning
• Who will you acquire ideas and
behaviors from?
• If your parent was the only individual
from the previous generation that you
had access to, that would be the best
you could do.
Emergent phenomenon
• If you have access to other members of the
previous generation
• Then you can take advantage of an emergent
phenomenon
Convergence: Members of the previous
generation will tend to converge on the
same adaptive solution.
• So you can just copy the most common
solution (better than copying at random).
Why do people converge on adaptive
solutions?
•
Two reasons:
1. If it is not too hard to find the best solution
on your own, then most people will find
it via individual learning.
Or,
2. If a person can recognize a better
solution when they see it in somebody
else, then most people will get it via
social learning.
Individual learning (assume a small set of
possible solutions)
Convergence thru individual learning
Social learning…
?
?
…also leads to convergence
Therefore…
• If you are a member of the next generation, it
makes sense to have a preference for the
most common meme, because usually the
most common meme, is the best one
available.
• Meme: idea or behavior that is transmissible
through social learning.
• Who’s a member of the next generation?
Everybody, at one point.
norm-conformism
A social interaction is a ‘game’
• You are a ‘player’
• You enter into an interaction with
another ‘player’
• You pay some costs in order to play
– At the very least, time and energy.
• You play with a particular ‘strategy’
• And there are potential ‘payoffs’.
• Different strategies have different
payoffs.
Problems of coordination
• Any social game is rife with problems of
coordination.
• If you and I attempt to play a social game
together, but
– Our signaling systems are different
– We have different expectations for the same
moves in the game
– We think we are playing different games
• Then the costs of our interaction will increase
Interactional norms
• The games of social life. . .
– Hosting a guest
– Making a promise, contract. . .
– Shaming and being shamed
– Greeting
– Marrying, raising a child, divorcing
– Paying, forgiving a debt
– How to joke, kid around
People should be norm-conformists
• Assume some variation in
norms
A
A A
A
A
A A
A
B
B
– In the simplest model, say, 80% have
norm A, and 20% norm B.
 You are a new member of the group.
Which norm should you adopt?
 If you adopt A, you can coordinate with
80% of the group.
Prestige-biased transmission
The Jordan Effect
Michael Jordan
Companies want him
• Companies selling all sorts of things…
– phone service
– perfume (?!)
– you name it
• …think that Jordan can help them sell these
things.
• Why?
• Because Jordan has prestige, and people
want to do what the prestigious do.
Copy those with better information
?
?
• Good idea.
• Much better to choose
an above-average
model than a random
model.
• But learning benefits
from the cooperation
of the model.
• So it is adaptive to
induce it.
• And so you kiss up.
The old arguments apply here…
• Finding out who has better information
requires costly individual learning.
• But conforming to the judgments of others
about who has better information is cheap
and easy.
• Since those with above-average info in the
previous generation will have more kisseruppers, naïve entrants can use this
information to choose their first models.
The combined effect of prestige and
conformism
• Think of high-school fashions.
• Torn jeans, etc.
• How do fashion trends get started, how
do they remain stable for periods of
time?
Propaganda
The individual, and the state
What is propaganda?
• What is it?
– The institutionalized production of lies.
• Who produces it?
– Anybody with an interest that might be derailed by
the truth.
• What kinds of governments will produce
propaganda?
– Any government.
– That’s why we need a free press.
Propaganda is meme technology
• A propagandist is trying to put a meme in
your head.
• The only way to protect yourself from the
propagandist is to be aware.
• Why? Because the propagandist is a
memeticist.
– He pays attention to the things that make memes
successful.
– If you don’t also have this knowledge, you are
unprotected.
What is the ideal propaganda system?
• If people have prestige bias?
– Use “experts”
– People who are “independent analysts” of
X or Y (when X or Y is being discussed).
• If people have conformity bias?
– Make sure that many “independent voices”
say the same thing.
– Make sure that people don’t know you
control the independent voices.
What is the ideal propaganda system?
• The ideal propaganda system. . .
. . . is the ‘free press’!!!
• If you can corrupt the free press without
people knowing this, you’ve won.
Mmm….
Who is Slobodan Milosevic?
• There are two Milosevices
– The Media Milosevic
• i.e. the propaganda Milosevic
– the Real Milosevic
• Some of you may be familiar with the Media
Milosevic.
• We shall now compare him to the Real
Milosevic.
First, some background
• In 1989 Milosevic gave a speech before
several hundred thousand Serbs in
Kosovo Field, at the 600 anniversary of
a battle that the Serbs lost against the
Turks.
• We shall take a look at how the “free
press” reported this speech.
Media Milosevic, Real Milosevic
• “In Gazimestan, Milosevic announced that he
would also launch a war against the other
peoples of Yugoslavia.”
• Balkan Report, 2 July 1999, Volume 3, Number
26
• “he openly threaten[ed] force to hold the
six-republic federation together”
• Milosevic on Trial: Fall of a Pariah"; Newspaper
Publishing PLC, Independent on Sunday
(London); July 1, 2001.
Media Milosevic, Real Milosevic
• “Equal and harmonious relations among
Yugoslav peoples are a necessary condition for
the existence of Yugoslavia and for it to find its
way out of the crisis. . . Equal and united people
can above all become a part of the civilization
toward which mankind is moving. If we cannot be
at the head of the column leading to such a
civilization, there is certainly no need for us to be
at is tail.”
• BBC and US government translation of the
speech!
Media Milosevic, Real Milosevic
• And here, 10 years ago this month, the
Yugoslav President, Mr Slobodan Milosevic,
made his name telling a crowd of 500,000
Serbs, "Serbia will never abandon
Kosovo".
• The Irish Times; June 16, 1999, CITY EDITION;
SECTION: WORLD NEWS; CRISIS IN THE BALKANS;
Pg. 13
• But the words “Serbia will never abandon
Kosovo” do NOT appear in the text of the
speech!
Media Milosevic, Real Milosevic
• It was a stirringly virulent nationalist speech he made in
Kosovo, in 1989, harking back to the Serb Prince Lazar’s
suicidally brave battle against the Turks a mere six
centuries ago…
– June 5th 1999, The Economist
• Today, it is difficult to say what is the historical truth about
the Battle of Kosovo and what is legend. Today this is no
longer important. Oppressed by pain and filled with hope,
the people used to remember and to forget, as, after all, all
people in the world do, and it was ashamed of treachery
and glorified heroism. . . The answers to those questions
will be constantly sought by science and the people.
– From the BBC and US government translations!!
Media Milosevic, Real Milosevic
• “…it was on St. Vitus' Day, 1989, that Milosevic
whipped a million Serbs into a nationalist frenzy
in the speech that capped his ascent to power.
– TIME International, July 9, 2001 v158 i1 p18+
• “In a fervent speech before a million Serbs, he
galvanized the nationalist passions that two years
later fueled the Balkan conflict.”
– The New York Times, July 28, 1996, Sunday, Late Edition Final, Section 1; Page 10; Column 1; Foreign Desk, 1384
words
Media Milosevic, Real Milosevic
• Nine years ago today, Milosevic's fiery speech here
to a million angry Serbs was a rallying cry for
nationalism and boosted his popularity enough to
make him the country's uncontested leader.
– The Washington Post, June 29, 1998, Monday, Final Edition,
A SECTION; Pg. A10, 354 words.
Media Milosevic, Real Milosevic
“…unity in Serbia will bring prosperity to the Serbian people in
Serbia and each one of its citizens, irrespective of his national
or religious affiliation…
Serbia has never had only Serbs living in it. Today, more than in
the past, members of other peoples and nationalities also live in
it. This is not a disadvantage for Serbia. I am truly
convinced that it is its advantage. National composition of
almost all countries in the world today, particularly developed
ones, has also been changing in this direction. Citizens of
different nationalities, religions, and races have been living
together more and more frequently and more and more
successfully…
The only differences one can and should allow in socialism
are between hard working people and idlers and between
honest people and dishonest people. Therefore, all people
in Serbia who live from their own work, honestly, respecting
other people and other nations, are in their own republic.”
They are lying
• How do we know they are lying?
• Well, the speech was reported
accurately on the day it was given. It
was only years later, when the US was
getting ready to bomb Yugoslavia, that it
was misrepresented.
How they reported at the time…
• Addressing the crowd, Milosevic said that whenever
they were able to the Serbs had helped others to
liberate themselves, and they had never used the
advantage of their being a large nation against others
or for themselves, Tanjug reported. He added that
Yugoslavia was a multi-national community which
could survive providing there was full equality for
all the nations living in it.
– BBC Summary of World Broadcasts, June 29, 1989,
Thursday, SECTION: Part 2 Eastern Europe; 2. EASTERN
EUROPE.
How they reported at the time…
…he talked of mutual tolerance, 'building a rich and
democratic society' and ending the discord which had, he said,
led to Serbia's defeat here by the Turks six centuries ago.
'There is no more appropriate place than this field of Kosovo to
say that accord and harmony in Serbia are vital to the
prosperity of the Serbs and of all other citizens living in
Serbia, regardless of their nationality or religion,' he said.
Mutual tolerance and co- operation were also sine qua non
for Yugoslavia: 'Harmony and relations on the basis of
equality among Yugoslavia's people are a precondition for
its existence, for overcoming the crisis.‘
• The Independent, June 29 1989, Thursday, Foreign News ; Pg.
10, 654 words, Milosevic carries off the battle honours, From
EDWARD STEEN and MARCUS TANNER in Kosovo Polje
What really happened in Yugoslavia
For an analysis of how the media covered the 1989
speech that Milosevic delivered in Kosovo, visit:
http://emperors-clothes.com/milo/gw.htm
For more articles by me about Yugoslavia, visit:
http://www.psych.upenn.edu/%7Efjgil/articles.htm#yugo
For more Emperor’s Clothes articles about
Yugoslavia, visit:
http://emperors-clothes.com/yugo.htm
Is US foreign policy anti-Nazi or
pro-Nazi?
A partial view
(there is so much stuff...)
What ‘everybody’ knows
• That US military intelligence helped many
Nazis escape to freedom, using the so-called
‘rat lines,’ in order to use them as intelligence
assets in the cold war.
• This included some of the worst war
criminals, who led cozy lives in the US, at the
expense of the US taxpayer.
• We are talking about people with the blood of
millions of Jewish, Russian, Serbian, and
Roma (Gypsy) civilians on their hands
(among others).
What ‘everybody’ knows
• However, what ‘everybody’ knows is false, in
a sense, because the truth is much worse
than that.
• The US did not import a few captured Nazi
war criminals in order to use them as
intelligence assets.
• The US absorbed almost the entire Nazi war
criminal organization, and out of that created
US intelligence and parts of the US military
(e.g. special forces)
Main source
• The main source for what you will hear today
is this book:
– Christopher Simpson (1988) Blowback: The first
full account of American’s recruitment of Nazis,
and its disastrous consequences on our domestic
and foreign policy. New York: Weidenfeld &
Nicolson.
• The rights to this book were bought by
someone who took it out of print...
• Simpson sources include many declassified
documents made publicly available through
the Freedom of Information Act.
The Klaus Barbie scandal
• “In 1971 Klaus Barbie was positively identified by
Serge and Beatte Klarsfeld (a husband-wife team of
Nazi hunters) in Bolivia, but the rightist Bolivian
government refused to extradite Barbie....
Meanwhile, the conservative French government
of the 1970’s had enough Vichy collaborators in
its ranks to want to avoid having Barbie back in
France pointing his finger at ministers and declaring,
“Hey, I know that guy, he helped me during the war.”
It was only in 1983 that Barbie, left unprotected by
the rise of a moderate leftist government in Bolivia
and the ascension of the leftist Mitterand
administration in France, was deported to France.”
[Source: Trial of Klaus Barbie Homepage
http://members.aol.com/voyl/barbie/kbbio.htm]
The Klaus Barbie scandal
• Francois Mitterrand was a highly placed collaborator
in the Nazi government in WWII Frace.
• “Shrouded in half-truths and rumors for nearly a half
century, President Francois Mitterrand’s role in the
pro-Nazi Vichy regime has been brought to light in a
widely acclaimed book published this week.”– The
Associated Press, September 3, 1994.
FOR THE FULL AP ARTICLE, VISIT:
http://emperors-clothes.com/gilwhite/alija2.htm#_ftn19
• This book: Pean, Pierre (1994) Une Jeunesse
Francaise: Francois Miterrand. Paris: Fayard
• And what did this book document?
Excerpts from AP
• “The young Mitterrand was an ardent follower of collaborationist
leader Phillipe Petain [i.e. the biggest Nazi in France], and
believed in the ‘national revolution’ that begat the strict, antiJewish laws of 1940-41. As early as 1935, Mitterrand
participated in an anti-foreigner rally in Paris.”
• “After the French defeat of 1940, Mitterrand joined the
ultranationalist ‘Legion des Combattants’ (Fighter’s Legion)
which later became the feared militia that relentlessly hunted
Jews and Resistance fighters.”
• “Yes, Mitterrand had close ties with ‘La Cagoule,’ an outlawed
extreme-right group that sought to overthrow the republic, and
yes, he never repudiated his friendships with some of its
leaders.”
Excerpts from AP
• “At 26, Mitterrand also received the ‘francisque,’ Vichy’s highest
award, from Petain. He published articles in Petainist magazines
that also carried rabidly anti-Semitic diatribes.”
• “And when he joined the Resistance in 1943 – not earlier as he
long maintained – he did it whithout repudiating his Vichy past,
its ideology, or his friends, Pean writes.”
• “ ‘Francois Mitterrand does not seem embarrassed by his past,’
Pean was quoted as saying in an interview this week in Paris
Match magazine.”
• “Also on record for the first time is Mitterrand’s friendship with
Rene Bousquet, Vichy’s police chief who was responsible for
hte deprtation of Jewish children.”
What have we learned?
• That the French rightist government of the 1970s was
full of people who had been Vichy collaborators [i.e.
full of Nazis who tried as hard as they could to
exterminate all of the Jews in France]
• And the “socialist” government that followed had for
president one of the top Nazis of the Vichy regime:
Francois Mitterrand.
– (Did the Nazis lose the war?)
• So when Barbie was tried in France, he was among
friends. Friends who helped make sure that nobody
would find out that Barbie had not been the only Nazi
war criminal to have been recruited by the US.
The Ryan Report
• Meanwhile, the US was doing the same: trying to cover up that it
had recruited many other Nazis.
• This attempted cover-up was called the Ryan Report, for Allan
Ryan, its author.
• Ryan was supposed to be a Nazi hunter employed by the US
Justice Department after the war. He was tasked to do an
investigation because nine congressmen had written President
Reagan:
– “...urging him to personally order an investigation that would, quote,
‘once and for all make clear the United States position on Nazi war
criminals and whether US agencies knowingly or unknowingly
provided protection for Barbie and others.” – ABC-TV News, March
7, 1983.
• Ryan’s ‘investigation’ ‘concluded’ that, yes, the US had dealt
with Barbie, but he was the only one.
In fact, however...
• US military intelligence recruited Reinhardt Gehlen
and his entire organization.
• Gehlen was “Hitler’s most senior military intelligence
officer on the eastern front.”
• In other words, Gehlen was directly responsible for
the torture and death of several million Jews and
many millions of Russian civilians.
• That is a very big deal, but it’s just the tip of the
iceberg.
• (All of this documented in Christopher Simpson’s
Blowback, cited earlier)
From Blowback
• The US recruited thousands of other former Nazi war
criminals and organized them into clandestine military
forces it kept in Europe.
• Others, it illegally imported into the US and set them
up as phony ‘exile’ organizations that were supposed
to go lead their Eastern European countries when
they were ‘liberated’ from the Soviets.
• These emigré organizations were posed as antiCommunist and pro-American and were used by the
CIA to lobby domestically for its programs, which
relied on using its Nazis.
• It is important to realize that the CIA did not
exist until after the war. The thousands of war
criminals absorbed were not added to a vast
US intelligence apparatus. Rather, they
became the US’s vast intelligence apparatus.
From Blowback :Italy
• There is too much material, so we will focus
on one detail: what the CIA did in Italy.
– “Not all the clandestine containment progams
were aimed at the USSR and its satellites. Some
of the most important early applications of these
tactics began in Western Europe. The Italian
elections of 1948 marked another important
milestone in the development of US covert
operations and in high-level support for the use of
former Nazi collaborators.” Christopher Simpson,
Blowback (p.89)
Vatican
• The CIA had long been cooperating with the Vatican.
• The Vatican cooperated extensively with the Nazis
during WWII. I mention just three prominent facts
(there is so much more...):
– Pope Pious XII assisted Hitler’s domestic policy by ordering
the German Catholic party not to oppose him.
– He assisted his extermination program directly in Croatia,
where the concentration camps were so brutal that they
appalled even the Nazis. These camps were run by
Franciscan priests under the authority of Archbishop
Stepinac, who greeted Ante Pavelic, the Croatian ‘poglavnik’
(i.e. ‘fuhrer’) as an emissary of God.
– After the war, the Vatican used one of its many infamous ‘ratlines’ to spirit almost the entire Ustashe (Croatian Nazi)
organization to safety, including Ante Pavelic (who was given
last rites by the Pope himself when he died in Spain).
• The book to read is Cornwell, J. 1999. Hitler's pope:
The secret history of Pius XII. New York: Viking..
From Blowback :Italy
• After the war, “the CIA established much deeper and
broader ties with the hierarchy of the Roman Catholic
Church in Rome than had previously been the case.
This not only had a powerful impact on the Italian
political scene but also...laid the foundation for the
agency’s relatioship with Intermarium, an influential
Catholic lay organization made up primarily of
Eastern European exiles that operated under the
protection of the Vatican. At least half a dozen senior
leaders of Intermarium can be readily identified as
Nazi collaborators.” --Christopher Simpson, Blowback
(p.89)
• Intermarium set up several rat lines, in cooperation
with US intelligence, to get Nazi war criminals out of
Europe after the war. Many to the US.
From Blowback :Italy
• After the war, the leftists were very strong in Italy, and
Washington did not like that—neither did the Vatican.
• So the US dumped a staggering amount of money
into Italy in order to defeat them.
– “Cardinal Spellman of New York served as a crucial gobetween in CIA-Vatican negotiations... The US government,
the cardinal said, had secretly ‘released large sums in ‘black
currency’ in Italy to the Catholic Church.’ This “black
currency” did not come from American taxpayers. Rather, a
substantial part of the funding for clandestine activities in
Italy came from captured Nazi German assets, including
money and gold that the Nazis had looted from the Jews.” –
Christopher Simpson, Blowback (p.91)
From Blowback :Italy
• “The CIA withdrew about $10 million from the fund in
late 1947, laundered it through a myriad of bank
accounts, then used that money to finance sensitive
Italian operations. This was the ‘black currency’ that
Cardinal Spellman asserted was given to the Vatican
for anti-Communist agitation... Much of the CIA’s $10
million Italian war chest was delivered through
clandestine campaign contributions to Christian
Democratic candidates... [and] many of the remnants
of the Fascists’ wartime ruling apparatus, as well as
most of the police, had joined Christian Democratic
ranks after 1945...” -- Christopher Simpson,
Blowback (p.91)
From Blowback :Italy
• The leftists were defeated in Italy. As in
France, the Nazis secretly won at the polls.
• Did the Nazis lose the war?
The current attack on Jews
• The current attack on Jews, just like the
Nazi attack, relies on spreading lies.
• In the early twentieth century a hoax was sold all
over the Western world called, “The Protocols of
the Elders of Zion”… It was entirely made up. But
because of the slanderous accusations against
the Jews in it, millions of Jews were killed!
• To read about “The Protocols,” visit:
• http://emperors-clothes.com/antisem/protocols-1.htm
The current attack on Jews
• One important lie today is to present Yasser Arafat’s PLO as a
desperate and also nationalist movement.
• This requires never speaking of the founder of the movement,
Hajj Amin al Husseini, who was even more enthusiastic than
Hitler about exterminating the Jews.
– Hajj Amin was a leader of Hitler’s Final solution.
– Hajj Amin mentored Yasser Arafat.
– Members of Hajj Amin’s Arab Higher Committee are who set up
Fatah, Yasser Arafat’s organization.
– Fata swallowed up the PLO in 1970, so that the PLO is really
Fatah.
• So… the PLO is an antisemitic and genocidal organization.
The PLO
• To read about the Nazi origins of the
PLO, an organization descended from
Hitler’s Final Solution, visit:
• http://emperors-clothes.com/gilwhite/Israel.htm
Does the US favor Israel?
• Another important lie is the idea that Israel (or ‘the
Jews’) controls the US, or else that the US invariable
favors Israel and ‘the Jews’ (the better to blame Jews
for US foreign policy!)
• But the evidence that the US favors Israel rests on
three claims only:
– Israel receives money from the US (but Egypt, Israel’s
enemy, receives a comparable amount of money—and that’s
just one enemy).
– Israel receives weapons from the US (but Saudi Arabia,
Israel’s enemy, receives more weapons—and that’s just one
enemy).
– Israel got US assistance in the war of 1973 (but it got zero
assistance—or the opposite—in every other war, and even in
73 the US only got involved because the Soviets were
supporting the other side).
Does the US favor Israel?
• The above three points are highly
questionable as evidence that the US favors
Israel, and the rest of the evidence from US
foreign policy suggests that the US attacks
Israel.
• For example, the US consistently goes out of
its way to assist the PLO.
• I give a few examples.
Does the US favor the PLO?
• In 1974, with Kurt Waldheim presiding as UN
Secretary General (this man was later revealed to
have been a Nazi war criminal), the United Nations
invited Yasser Arafat, the genocidal antisemite and
protégé of Hajj Amin al Husseini (another Nazi war
criminal), to give a speech to the UN General
Assembly.
• He was received with the protocols of a chief of state!
• I point out that Kurt Waldhaim was the US’s
candidate.
• This suggests that the US favors the PLO.
Does the US favor the PLO?
• In 1975, again with Kurt Waldheim presiding
as UN Secretary General, UN resolution 3379
was passed which defined Zionism as
racism!
• This was a great propaganda plus for the
PLO.
• I remind you that Kurt Waldhaim was the
US’s candidate.
• This suggests that the US favors the PLO.
Does the US favor the PLO?
• In 1977, again with the Nazi Kurt Waldheim presiding,
Yasser Arafat’s PLO became the first non-state
ever to be granted membership in the UN!
• This greatly increased the international ‘respectability’
of this terrorist organization.
• I remind you that Kurt Waldhaim was the US’s
candidate.
• This suggests that the US favors the PLO.
Does the US favor the PLO?
• In that same year of 1977, the US president,
Jimmy Carter, declared publicly his
support for a “Palestinian homeland.”
• The PLO announced its support for a
Palestinian state that same year.
• In fact, on the same day! (May 17th)
– (uncanny coincidence?)
• This suggests that the US favors the PLO.
Does the US favor the PLO?
• Also in 1977, the US pushed very hard for a ‘peace
process’ at Geneva that would lead to the creation
of a Palestinian state.
• When the Israelis showed themselves reluctant, the
US went behind their backs and got together with the
Soviets, surprising the world with a joint proposal for
the creation of a Palestinian state run by the PLO.
– The US was an enemy of the USSR, but when it came to
attacking Jews they buried their differences.
• Vigorous Israeli diplomacy was needed to make the
US back down.
• This suggests that the US favors the PLO.
Does the US favor the PLO?
• In 1979, the Carter administration began a joint effort
with Saudi Arabia to export the latter country’s
antisemitic Islamist terrorism to Afghanistan, and
elsewhere, helping inflame hatred against Jews
among millions of Muslims.
• Subsequently this became an international,
mercenary, antisemtic, terrorist movement.
• This is also good propaganda for the PLO.
– It is certainly not good for Israel, especially given that this
international terrorist movement accuses Israel of being the
culprit behind every hated US foreign policy.
• This suggests that the US favors the PLO.
Does the US favor the PLO?
• In 1981 US president Ronald Reagan (supposedly
very different from Carter) launched a diplomatic
attack against Israel, endorsing a Saudi proposal
to establish a Palestinian state run by the PLO.
• Reagan also decided to sell much new weaponry to
Saudi Arabia (in addition to a secret build-up that
Carter had begun).
• Saudi Arabia is one of the main sponsors of the PLO
terrorists.
• This suggests that the US favors the PLO.
Does the US favor the PLO?
• In 1982 Israel was close to delivering the death blow
to the PLO in Lebanon
– Israel had invaded Lebanon because the PLO terrorists,
after causing a civil war in Jordan, had been chased out and
had taken up residence in Lebanon, from which they
attacked Israel, and also caused a civil war in Lebanon.
• But Israel could not deliver this death blow because
the US military swept in and deposited the PLO
terrorists safely in Tunis
• This suggests that the US favors the PLO.
Does the US favor the PLO?
• Up to then, the PLO had been the
bodyguards for the US diplomats in Beirut,
Lebanon’s capital!
• This suggests that the US favors the PLO.
Does the US favor the PLO?
• In the late 90s, the US pushed for the Oslo ‘Peace’
Process, strong arming the Israelis until they
agreed to participate.
– Specifically, the US threatened the Israelis with the loss of
certain loan guarantees that were crucial for resettlement of
Russian immigrants.
• But meanwhile the PLO was explaining to its Arab
audiences that the Oslo process was just a “Trojan
Horse” so they could start killing Jews again, which
they couldn’t do from Tunis.
• This suggests that the US favors the PLO.
Does the US favor the PLO?
• Despite the spectacular success of the Oslo
process as a Jew-killing machine, the US has
been pushing for something called the ‘Road
Map’, which is even worse for Israel.
• The US is also supporting unilateral Israeli
withdrawal from Gaza.
• This suggests that the US favors the PLO.
Documentation
• For documentation of the points above
concerning US policy towards Israel and
the Jews, visit:
• http://emperors-clothes.com/gilwhite/ally.htm
• http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/cia.htm
Does the US favor the PLO?
• Finally, who trained the PLO?
• The CIA.
• This suggests that the US favors the PLO.
• Since the PLO seeks to exterminate the
Jews, it would appear that this is also US
policy.
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IPS-Inter Press Service, December 2, 1998, Wednesday, 918 words, POLITICSMIDDLE EAST: SECRET SERVICES IN THE NAME OF PEACE?, By Dilip Hiro,
LONDON, Dec. 2
One of the more remarkable features of the recent Wye River Memorandum,
signed by Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), is the role
assigned to the United States' own Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Under Wye, Washington's secret agents have been charged with ensuring that
the PLO comply with clauses requiring action against "terrorist" opposition.
Israel already has three secret agencies in the field. The Shin Beth ("Security
Service") is responsible for internal security; the Institute for Intelligence and
Special Tasks or Mossad ("The Institute") for short, covering foreign intelligence;
and Ama n (Intelligence Branch) for military intelligence.
The PLO has its internal security organization, and the Palestinian Authority also
runs its own equivalent to the Israeli Shin Beth, the Preventive Security Service
(PSS).
Now the amply equipped CIA joins these well entrenched forces, monitoring the
thoughts and actions of just 2.75 million Palestinians in Gaza and the West
Bank.
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Mossad's clandestine links with the CIA date as far back as 1951 and both
began monitoring the PLO as soon as it was formed in 1964. For 29 years they
both treated the PLO as a terrorist organization until the CIA changed strategy
after Oslo.
[ The above is false. The US made an agreement with Israel not to have
clandestine contacts with the PLO and which the CIA violated immediately. They
were playing nice with the PLO from the start. – FGW
http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/cia.htm ]
After a series of suicide bombings by Islamists in Jerusalem in February-March
1996. George Tenet, then deputy director of the CIA, met Arafat for the first time.
Meeting at Gaza's Erez crossing in March 1996 he urged Arafat to take action
against the Islamist bombers.
The CIA began training Palestinian security personnel at the PSS's counterintelligence center in Jericho run by Major Jibril Rajoub. In September 1996 the
Paris-based al-Watan al-Arabi newspaper disclosed that the CIA was training
Palestinian security officers in the United States.
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